Police officers caught breaking lockdown rules after house party raided Responding to Sky's political correspondent Joe Pike, the health secretary says there will be reviews into elements of the government's roadmap which will look at things such as social distancing and international travel.
"What really matters and is hardest to judge right now is how much the vaccine has severed that link," he says. "We promoted positivity about getting the vaccine to protect yourself and your loved ones and your local community. I'm sure there are many, many more lessons."Many have described having the vaccine as a joyful moment, and for the health secretary himself it was no different.
He says he took a day to fly to Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff, calling it"one of the most useful 24 hours in the pandemic". He says it helped him realise the"power of the vaccine would be so great that we would have to think very hard about who to protect first".Government was told last year that COVID vaccines would take at least five years and might never work - Hancock
Speaking from the Jenner Institute in Oxford, Matt Hancock says he will be reflecting mostly on the UK vaccination effort but he begins his speech by acknowledging calls for vaccine sharing with other countries. The offer will be open to the first 200,000 people to respond when the nation reaches the vaccine threshold.
Saying the order of priority - which has focused on age and clinical vulnerability - has been important, he told the committee that people can't"buy their way up the queue".The health secretary pointed out that not even future kings can jump the queue. But Mr Johnson said there will be"more coming through" to support children catching up from missed education during the coronavirus pandemic.
Pressed on the issue of whether more countries will this week be added to the green list as is hoped by British holidaymakers and the travel industry, his response focused on the reverse. They entered and found a number of off duty officers present, in breach of current lockdown restrictions.Chief Superintendent Nick May said:"We take COVID-related breaches very seriously and we are actively investigating this matter. The officers involved have not been suspended while the investigation continues.
Why? I get we didn’t have a choice this round because we hadn’t ordered enough Pfizer for it to be the main vaccine, but when we have 60m extra doses of Pfizer ordered why bother with AZ given the risk from clotting. It will put people off from a further jab .. myself included.